Danzig
6:66 Satan's Child
Review by Steve Colombo
Danzig's new album, 6:66 Satan's Child, is excellent. Danzig just keeps on getting better and better with each successive album. It is everything we love and expect to hear coming from this master of darkness. Heavy, gothic, industrial, Danzig keeps on building and improving. Due to legal problems with record execs, Danzig was held up in limbo after signing with Hollywood records, a subsidiary of Walt Disney Co., who objected to Danzig's image. After a vicious two year battle, Glenn Danzig formed his own label, partnered with E-magine Entertainment, and blasted out this record.
The whole tone of the album from the songwriting and instrumentation to production is slick, tight and packs a punch (and a lot of crunch)! At it's core is the basic sound we have heard on everything that the Danzig name has been attached to, but this record takes on another dimension. The whole disc is punctuated with effects and background sounds coloring in the backdrop for that up front and in your face gothic rock guitar/bass/drums grind. In some ways this one has a bit of a Nine Inch Nails influence especially with the bass guitar. Josh Lazie really puts a unique slant that is most often overlooked on this important instrument. Joey Castillo's drumming is very funky and groovy, almost like a techno dance beat that really adds to the tone and feel of the record. Glenn Danzig's and Jeff Chamber's guitars are so heavy and thick that it makes you want to cry. And that voice…man, that voice! Glenn Danzig has to be one of the best and most powerful voices ever heard in rock. Sensual, passionate, much like the Doors Jim Morrison. Everyone that likes dark, heavy rock should have this in their disc collection.
This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: The Early Years Volume 3 at garyhillauthor.com/Music-Street-Journal-The-Early-Years.
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